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Antimicrobial resistance monitoring results complementing the European Union Summary Report on Antimicrobial Resistance in zoonotic and indicator bacteria from humans, animals and food in 2019/2020 – Ireland

This dataset contains AMR monitoring results in animals and food at the isolate level pursuant to Article 9 of Directive 2003/99/EC and to Annex, part B, of Commission implementing Decision 2013/652/EU. In addition, the dataset includes any other results from isolates than the ones mentioned in the Commission implementing Decision 2013/652/EU. The quantitative minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) data from dilution methods are included. Reporting authorities contributing to 2020 AMR data collection: The Food Safety Authority of Ireland

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Antimicrobial resistance monitoring results complementing the European Union Summary Report on Antimicrobial Resistance in zoonotic and indicator bacteria from humans, animals and food in 2019/2020 – The United Kingdom

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Towards an animal economics spectrum for ecosystem research

The framework of the plant economics spectrum advanced our understanding of plant ecology and proved as a unifying concept across plant taxonomy, growth forms and biomes. Similar approaches for animals mostly focus on linking life-history and metabolic theory, but not on their application in ecosystem research. To fill this gap, we propose the animal economics spectrum (AES) based on broadly available traits that describe organismal size, biological times and rates. To exemplify the feasibility and general usefulness of constructing the AES, we compiled data on adult and offspring body mass, life span, age at first reproduction, reproductive and metabolic rate of 98 terrestrial taxa from seven selected animal classes and mapped these taxa into an exemplary quantitative trait space. The AES consists of two principal axes related to reproductive strategies and the pace of life; both axes are linked by animal metabolism. The AES thus closely mirrors seminal ideas on fundamental life-history strategies and more recent discoveries and developments in the fields of life-history and metabolic theory. Furthermore, we find associations between the positions of animals within the AES and taxonomy, thermoregulation and body plan. The AES shows that key dimensions describing different ecological strategies of animals can be depicted with functional traits that are relatively easily accessible for a broad spectrum of animal taxa. We suggest future steps towards an application of the AES in ecosystem research aiming at the understanding of ecological processes and ecosystem functions. Additionally, we urge for databases that compile comparable functional traits for a large proportion of animals but also for further groups of organisms with the ultimate goal to map the economics spectrum of life. The framework of the AES will be relevant for understanding ecological processes across animal taxa at species, community and ecosystem level. We further discuss how it can facilitate predictions on how the functional composition and diversity of animal communities can be affected by global change.

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Fig. 4. T in Trichinellosis Of Wild Animals In Ukraine And Its Danger To The Public

Fig. 4. T. britovi occurrence in natural foci of invasion in Ukraine.

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Fig. 3 in Trichinellosis Of Wild Animals In Ukraine And Its Danger To The Public

Fig. 3. The infestation extent of wild mammals' trichinellosis in Ukraine.

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Fig. 1 in Trichinellosis Of Wild Animals In Ukraine And Its Danger To The Public

Fig. 1. The domestic (1) and the sylvatic (2) cycles of Trichinella in Ukraine.

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Fig. 2 in A Pasture Of Big Ungulate Animals As Key Ecological Factor Influencing On The Fluctuation Of Natural Habitat Of Steppe Herbivorous Mammals

Fig. 2. The steppe marmot quantity dynamics in the 20–21th century (cattle vs the steppe marmot).

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Fig. 2 in A Review Of Major Impact Factors Of Hostilities Influencing Biodiversity In The Eastern Ukraine (Modeled On Selected Animal Species)

Fig. 2. Temporal distribution of numbers of ignitions in ATO zone in 2010–2014.

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County-level of particle and gases emission inventory for animal dung burning in the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau, China

County-level activity data and emission factors

Data from: Lineage-specific trait variations and plasticity of obligate parthenogenetic animals following the expansion of distribution range to a continental archipelago.

Two asexual lineages, JPN1 and JPN2, of panarctic Daphnia pulex expanded the distribution range to Japan from North America, independent of each other. According to the mutation rates within these lineages, JPN1 lineage colonized Japan earlier than JPN2 lineage. Moreover, the ratio of nonsynonymous to synonymous mutation rates (dN/dS) was lower in JPN1 than in JPN2 lineage. Accordingly, it is hypothesized that variations of phenotypic traits differ between these two lineages. In addition, since they are obligate parthenogenetic animals, the lineage occupying a larger distribution range should have a larger phenotypic plasticity. To test these hypotheses, we experimentally examined the phenotypic variations of fitness-related traits, including digestive, life history and morphological traits, among several genotypes of these lineages. We found that within-lineage variations of most traits were smaller in JPN1 than in JPN2. In addition, the overall phenotypic variations were also smaller within the JPN1 lineage than within the JPN2 lineage. These results support the idea that the JPN1 lineage has been more efficiently subjected to negative selection, as expected from the lower dN/dS ratio. However, the magnitude of the phenotypic plasticity to changing food levels was at the same level for both the JPN1 and JPN2 lineages, while variations found in the phenotypic plasticity were smaller in the JPN1 lineage. The difference in the variations of the phenotypic traits and plasticity between the two lineages suggests that these two lineages have evolved under somewhat different environmental conditions and that genotypes of the JPN2 lineage may have exploited niches that differed somewhat from that of the JPN1 genotypes.

Integrated animal movement and spatial capture-recapture models: simulation, implementation, and inference

Over the last decade, spatial capture-recapture (SCR) models have become widespread for estimating demographic parameters in ecological studies. However, the underlying assumptions about animal movement and space use are often not realistic. This is a missed opportunity because ecological questions related to animal space use, habitat selection, and behavior cannot be addressed with most SCR models, despite the fact that the data collected in SCR studies -- individual animals observed at specific locations and times -- can provide a rich source of information about how these processes relate to demographic rates. We developed SCR models that integrate complex movement processes that are typically inferred from telemetry data, including a simple random walk, correlated random walk (i.e., short-term directional persistence), and habitat-driven Langevin diffusion. We demonstrated how to formulate, simulate from, and fit these models with standard SCR data using Bayesian analysis methods. We evaluated their performance through a simulation study, where we varied the detection, movement, and resource selection parameters. We also examined different numbers of sampling occasions and assessed performance gains when including auxiliary location data collected from telemetered individuals. Across all scenarios, the integrated SCR movement models performed well in terms of abundance, detection, and movement parameter estimation. We found little difference in bias for the simple random walk model when reducing the number of sampling occasions from T=25 to T=15. We found some bias in movement parameter estimates under several of the correlated random walk scenarios, but incorporating auxiliary location data improved parameter estimates and significantly improved mixing during model fitting. The Langevin movement model was able to recover resource selection parameters from standard SCR data, which is appealing because it explicitly links the individual-level movement process with habitat selection and population density. We focused on closed population models, but movement models developed here could be extended to open SCR models. The movement process models could also be extended to accommodate additional "building blocks'' of random walks, such as central tendency (e.g., territoriality) or multiple movement behavior states, thereby providing a flexible and coherent framework for linking animal movement behavior to population dynamics, density, and distribution.

Phototransduction in a marine sponge provides insights into the origin of animal vision: CEL-Seq2 analyses

Most cellular organisms respond to light. In animals, the phototransduction system has evolved from localised light-detecting photoreceptors to ultimately complex eyes and vision. Here, we investigate the origin of metazoan photodetection and transduction by comparing well-characterised opsin-based photosystems in neural animals with those in the sponge Amphimedon queenslandica. Although sponges lack neurons and opsin genes, they can respond rapidly to light. In Amphimedon larva, this is guided by the light-sensing posterior pigment ring. We first use cell type-specific transcriptomes to reveal that genes that characterise eumetazoan Gt- and Go-mediated photosystems are enriched in the Amphimedon pigment ring. We then apply a suite of cell signalling pathway agonists and antagonists to swimming larvae exposed to directional light. These experiments implicate metabotropic glutamate receptors, phospholipase-C, protein kinase C and voltage-gated calcium channel in larval phototaxis. We find that U-73122-inhibition of phospholipase-C, a key transducer of the Gq-mediated pathway, completely reverses phototactic behaviour. Together, these results are consistent with aneural sponges sharing with neural metazoans an ancestral set of signal transduction pathways that have been maintained in these disparate photosensory systems since the last common animal ancestor.

Data from: The importance of population heterogeneities in detecting social learning as the foundation of animal cultural transmission

High levels of within-population behavioural variation can have drastic demographic consequences, thus changing the evolutionary fate of populations. A major source of within-population heterogeneity is personality. Nonetheless, it is still relatively rarely accounted for in social learning studies that constitute the most basic process of cultural transmission. Here, we perform in female mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki) a social learning experiment in the context of mate choice, a situation called mate copying, and for which there is strong evidence that it can lead to the emergence of persistent traditions of preferring a given male phenotype. When accounting for the global tendency of females to prefer lager males but ignoring differences in personality we detected no evidence for mate copying. However, when accounting for the bold-shy dichotomy, we found that bold females did not show any evidence for mate copying, while shy females showed significant amounts of mate copying. This illustrates how the presence of variation in personality can hamper our capacity to detect mate copying. We conclude that mate copying may be more widespread than we thought because many studies ignored the presence of within-population heterogeneities.

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SiC nano for PicoGeo project animated video

This animated video is designed to reach the general public, given its cartoon form and its non-technical content that aims to present the project in general. However, it is also aimed at getting potential stakeholders attracted by the ideas conveyed by the project to take a more conscious interest in SiC Nano for PicoGeo. The main message conveyed given by the video is that improving the sensitivity of current strain meter technology – i.e., the goal of the Sic nano for PicoGeo project – is key to enhancing geoscience and geohazard monitoring, which directly affects the more excellent safety of the population in the earthquake and volcanic risk areas.

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Animal eMotion, or the emotional evaluation of moving animals

Dataset relative to the following publication: Schmidt, F., Schürmann, L., & Haberkamp, A. (in press). Animal EMotion, or The Emotional Evaluation of Moving Animals. Cognition & Emotion. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2022.2087600">https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2022.2087600</a> Each experiment folder contains the data relative to one study in .csv and .mat format and a text file with comments. The example stimuli folder contains example images and videos that are published under licenses allowing us to share them freely.

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Data Shared: Human land-uses homogenize stream assemblages and reduce animal biomass production

This is a dataset compiled from 117 sampling stream sites distributed across two neotropical biomes (rainforest and grassland). Dataset included single scaled vales of human land-use (agriculture, pasture, urbanization, and afforestation), scaled values of multifaceted biodiversity of fish, arthropods, and macrophytes (taxonomic richness, functional diversity[FDis], CWV and CWM of trait categories [recruitment and life-history, resource and habitat-use, and body size]), scaled values of local environmental predictors (stream site depth, water quality deterioration index, and sediment heterogeneity index), scaled values of climate predictors (temperature and precipitation), and log of animal biomass (fish and arthropod).

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Data associated with the paper "Exploiting Color space geometry for visual stimulus design across animals"

These are the pickled data files (pickled using pandas.DataFrame objects in Python) associated with the supplementary figures S4 and S7.  * amp_1155: Data for S4B * amp_1156: Data for S4A * amp_518: Data for S7C-D * amp_529: Data for S7E-F

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Willingness to replace animal-based products with pulses among consumers in different European countries

The growing world population and increased meat consumption pose a challenge for current food production systems. While pulses present a promising position in terms of low impacts in primary production and high nutritional quality, it is unclear whether consumers are willing to consume pulses instead of meat. Based on an online survey answered by 4,322 respondents across five European countries, this study examined consumers’ willingness to utilize pulses as a plant-based alternative to animal-based products. More than a third of pulse consumers (42%) were, to some extent, already using pulses as an alternative to animal-based foods. Beef was noted as the most frequently replaced type of food, mainly driven by arguments relating to health, environment, and sustainability, especially relevant for German and Danish consumers. Respondents who did not indicate a current replacement of animal-based foods stated a relatively low willingness to change in the future (40%). German pulse consumers were likely to be part of the low willingness segment. In contrast, Polish consumers possessed a relatively higher incidence of using pulses instead of meat, especially pork and poultry. Respondents with a low replacement willingness indicated a high importance of future pulse-based products to be natural, while respondents already using pulses instead of animal-based foods expected convenient and minimally processed foods. Respondents, who already replaced meat with pulses or expressed a low future willingness, stated to prefer plain pulses over processed pulse-based products, and meat-resembling forms considering the former segment, alternatively to meat. These preferences and expectations should be considered for future product development, especially if aiming to attract unwilling consumers to shift to pulse-based foods.

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Predicting foraging dive outcomes in chinstrap penguins using biologging and animal-borne cameras

Direct observation of foraging behavior is not always possible, especially for marine species that hunt below the surface. However, biologging and tracking devices in particular have provided very detailed information about how various species use their habitat. From these indirect observations, researchers have tried to infer foraging and prey catching events for a more accurate definition of these species' ecological niches. In this study, we deployed video cameras in addition to GPS and time-depth recorders on chinstrap penguins during the brood phase of the 2018-19 breeding season at various colonies on the Gourlay peninsula (South Orkney Islands). More than 57 hours of footage from 16 birds covering 770 dives were scrutinized by two independent observers. The outcome of each dive was classified as unsuccessful, individual krill encounter or krill swarm encounter. In addition, the number of prey items caught was recorded for successful dives. We then used various predicting variables derived from the other logging devices or from the environment to train a machine-learning algorithm to predict the outcome of each dive. Our results show that despite some limitations, the data collected from the footage was reliable as there was a high agreement from both annotators. We also demonstrate that it was possible to accurately predict the outcome of each dive from basic dive patterns and horizontal movement characteristics that have not been used for penguins previously. Finally, we discuss how video footage can help build more accurate habitat models and gain wider knowledge about predator behavior or prey distribution.